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This problem remains in Ubuntu 14.04.
Pressing F1 in the Disks window now brings up some help (yay!), but
GNOME Help » Hardware » Disks storage » Manage volumes and
partitions is light on details and says nothing about these icon
badges.
Besides giving these badges a tooltip, the panel
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1165437
Also suffering this UI bug of sort, also on Ubuntu 12.10.
On my machine, four of the eight partitions are displayed with a star.
The right-pointer triangle appears when the partition is mounted, so
it's probably meant as a media play metaphor.
The star usually means new (irrelevant here), or
